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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 4 points 1 hour ago

Neuralink test subject: Why do I smell burnt toast?

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Who would I jail? The C-officers. Your shit show, your responsibility. If you can't trust your employees, figure out why or do the work yourself.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 1 hour ago

Tape multiple together, and you have a rudimentary scoop.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 2 hours ago

This will never happen. Smell-o-Vision and its successors have been in development for decades, and they all have the same issue: where to store the numerous scent liquids. You can't just digitize scent and generate it on demand with some kind of solid state device. You can't just combine three liquids to make 1000 scents—the article's analogy of combining light to make colors is overly optimistic, bordering on delusional.

The other two related problems are convenience and cost. This is 1000% a novelty, and novelties quickly lose their appeal after you experience it the first time. Who is seriously going to be going out to buy replacement cartridges for a thing that is essentially a toy?

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 2 hours ago

Seems like a paltry amount, given what savvy social engineers could do with that data.

If you don't use proper security practices, you should be on the hook for prison time at a minimum.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago

It was ChatGPT from earlier this year. It wasn't a huge deal for me that it made mistakes, because I had a very specific use case and just wanted to save some time; I knew I'd have to troubleshoot grafting it into my function, but even after I pointed out that it was using depreciated syntax (and how to correct it), it just spat out the code again with even more errors and still using depreciated syntax.

All LLMs will fail like this in some way, because they don't actually understand what they're generating (i.e. they have no mechanism for self-evaluating the veracity of their statements).

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 8 points 20 hours ago

There's certainly room to grow with regard to workers' rights. I think you could probably solve at least a few of them if they were covered by a union, and publishers who hire them would have to bargain for good development contract terms.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 20 hours ago

That's true. The mistakes actually make learning possible!

Man, designing CS curriculum will be easy in future. Just ask it to do something simple, and ask your CS students to correct the code.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 20 hours ago

cash treadmill

Borrowing this turn of phrase

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 7 points 20 hours ago

Bruh, what do you mean "future?" That's me right now!

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 13 points 22 hours ago

A-one. A-two-hoo. A-three... *Crumch*

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 15 points 22 hours ago

You have to be hallucinating to understand.

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cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/24214265

So, a couple years ago, somebody published the 2017 free desktop client of SketchUp on the chocolatey repos, and I managed to snag it before it got taken down. I use it primarily to make woodworking plans.

I'm wrapping up my transition plan to Linux, but I'm not really up to date on SketchUp alternatives. The only ones I know of are Blender (afaik more for animation and 3D printing) and FreeCAD (CAD seems like overkill, since I'm just doing simple cuts and joinery).

Are there good Linux/FOSS alternatives to SketchUp that have similar features, or is the web client the only reasonable option?

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Telorand@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

This isn't a joke, though it almost seems like one. It uses Llama 3.1, and supposedly the conversation data stays on the device and gets forgotten over time (through what the founder calls a rolling "context window").

The implementation is interesting, and you can see the founder talking about earlier prototypes and project goals in interviews from several months ago.

iOS only, for now.

Edit: Apparently, you can build your own for around $50 that runs on ChatGPT instead of Llama. I'm sure you could also figure out how to switch it to the LLM of your choice.

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submitted 2 months ago by Telorand@reddthat.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm working on my transition plan away from Windows and testing out various things in VMs as I do so, and one big hurdle is making sure the VPN client my work requires can connect. Bazzite is my target distro (primarily gaming, work less frequently), though other more traditionally structured ones like Pop!_OS and Garuda are possibilities.

I'm currently trying and failing to get the VPN client working in a distrobox (throws an error during connection saying PPP isn't installed or supported by the kernel). However, I can successfully get the VPN connected if I overlay the client and its dependencies via rpm-ostree install, but I read somewhere that Bazzite's philosophy is to use rpm-ostree as sparingly as possible for installing software to preserve as much containerization as possible.

Since I can get it working outside of a container, am I overthinking it? Should I just accept that this might be one of the "sparing" cases? Is Bazzite perhaps a poor fit for my use case? I've been trying to make sense of this guide, but I'm having trouble understanding how to apply it to my situation, since I'm not that familiar with Docker or Podman.

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